For this month of diabetes awareness, I have been highlighting various individuals who were not satisfied with the norm. What they had…..was not good enough; so they changed it. They took a step forward to ‘do something’. I am asked many times how to get started. How to get involved. How to “Not do nothing”. The truth; there […]
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…..who is Gary Scheiner. If there is anyone on earth who has taken personal experienced and turned it into an ‘online’ university for diabetes, it is Gary Scheiner’s Integrated Diabetes Services where anyone, anywhere can be taught a better diabetes management style linking into his site. No more diabetes police hounding away (parents……that’s us) but […]
It is not uncommon for me to dream that Kaitlyn does not, and never had, diabetes. It is usually en event of some significance where we had to take her aside and check her blood glucose or stop what we are doing to give her an injection. I had another last night. It was a family gathering and […]
…..who is Michelle Alswager One of the most incredible women I know in this diabetes battle is Michelle. We, who complain, about what we go through daily are humbled by Michelle’s efforts because Michelle’s son lost his battle with diabetes. Michelle is stead-fast in her belief that Jesse’s memory is worth her continuing the fight and […]
In as much as it seems that the bionic pancreas (Ed Damiano) and other attempts at an artificial pancreas are constantly being reported as “not there yet’, “too bulky”, “too many wires still”, etc. etc. I would like to take this time to remind folks the following. Picture a back pack on the back of an astronaut; […]
…….who is Jeff Hitchcock. In all of my travels, and out all of the people I have met in my lifetime; in my mind one man stands alone and apart from all of the rest as having impacted the lives of families dealing with diabetes the most. He is a writer, a lecturer, humanitarian, creator, […]